Vocabulary

The rivalry in Romeo and Juliet "makes _________ hands unclean," which means common people are responsible for the death of others.

• civil

• prodigious

• countervail

• confound

• conceit

If you believe our lives are ruled by fate, you may believe people are _________________ or doomed by the powers of the universe.

• conduit

• carrion

• assail

• arbitrate

• star-crossed

There is a time to be silly and a time for ___________________.

• countervail

• confound

• solemnity

• assail

• conceit

If Juliet says she has a "prodigious birth of love," we know that her love is

• small

• questionable

• unattainable

• to a great extent

Friar Lawrence will explain that the sweetest honey "confounds the appetite." He means that sweetness ______________ the tastebuds.

• gets up on the back of

• confuses

• haunts

• hurts

Romeo says that nothing can work against the joy he feels when he sees Juliet. He means nothing can ____________ the joy.

• prodigious

• confound

• countervail

• privy

• arbitrate

When Juliet is crying, Capulet calls her a __________ because she is channel for water.

• carrion

• conduit

• conceit

• privy

• civil

Friar Lawrence says that Juliet's nurse knows their secret plans, so he says that she is _________________.

• solemn

• conduit

• arbitrate

• privy

• conceited

Romeo talks about flies, but also foreshadows his impending death. He calls them _____________ flies, creating an image of the flies swarming around a dead animal.

• conduit

• prodigious

• solemntiy

• carrion

• conceit

Juliet says that her knife will be an umpire, making the ultimate judgement about what happens to her. She says the knife will __________________ what she does next.

• arbitrate

• assail

• carrion

• conduit

• civil